Chapter 168

As the Seventh Heavenly General under the "Xuan," Huang Qi was an entity of the True Insight Realm.

Beyond the Union of Dao and the Profound, only beneath the "Immortal," the pinnacle existence of the Xuan Realm.

Even for just an instant, the power he unleashed could annihilate the entire Chifeng No. 47 Star System, and even the entire Chi Yu Star System.

But he did not do so, not even wasting a single thread of power to obliterate Chi Jiuyu, who had just stepped on his head and brought him endless shame.

The terrifying essence of the True Insight Realm began to burn without reserve.

Huang Qi shot forth like a crimson-gold light, leaping across the majority of the Western Star Region.

Even the most advanced jump engines today could not match even one ten-thousandth of his speed at this moment.

In the fleeting gap of the Sword Sovereign's sealing power, he crossed space and arrived at the edge of the Western Star Region.

Before his eyes were clusters of magnificent, alien nebulae, colorful and dreamlike, scattered across the deep cosmic background.

A vast, boundless continent, like the foundation of a world, lay hidden beneath countless dreamlike nebulae.

Its essence was so immense that it surpassed the combined total of all star systems in the Western Star Region.

Central Sacred Land!

At this moment, Huang Qi's form was gaunt and wrinkled, his divine flame at his brow dimmed to near extinction; the vast amount of essence burned away had left him nearly drained to the last spark, yet his dim eyes flickered with a trace of nostalgia.

How many years had passed? He had finally seen the sight of the Central Sacred Land again…

He seemed to sense the joy of Hun Tian Yi, as if calling out to him.

Every part of his body, every drop of flesh and spirit, rejoiced.

Countless eons…

But the Cang Clan remains the rightful heir of Heaven and Earth!

He drew closer to the Central Sacred Land, yet his essence dwindled further, his aura grew increasingly withered, and even his vision before him began to blur.

This journey meant certain death, but he had prepared for it long before he came.

In a haze, his blurred vision seemed to show countless spotless celestial pillars, entwined with nebulae, as if the origin of Dao, yet also the end of all things.

What is this? As the thought flashed, those "celestial pillars" seemed to collapse downward.

No! Not collapse!

They were closing!

The endless nebulae were but his palm lines; the stars, the cosmos, all heavens seemed held within his grasp.

Heaven spun, earth turned.

Everything became twisted lines, slowly drawn away until they vanished completely.

Void!

Nothing remained, not even the concept of existence was erased.

…

…

Whether an instant or an eternity, existence began to return; color reappeared before his eyes.

Dry, cracked riverbeds were now filling with water flowing from upstream, where scorching magma met the streams, steaming into vast clouds of vapor.

He had returned to the Chifeng No. 47 Star System.

In the nearby void, a jade talisman glowed faintly, projecting the image of a serene woman clad in a moon-white plain robe, draped in a light sheer gauze of black-green bamboo patterns.

Huang Qi's lips trembled, struggling to utter two words.

"Sword Sovereign…"

Bie Xuening glanced at Zhang Yunlu, who lay in pitiful condition, her heartbeat nearly halted, and gave a slight nod.

"Well done."

Because her sword path of slaughter was ferocious and boundless, her disciples always suffered its influence, encountering accidents and calamities without end.

If she cannot survive this trial, she need not be her disciple—returning to receive Ji Shimei's inheritance would be fine too.

But judging from now, she has done reasonably well.

"Master!"

Chi Jiuyu widened her eyes.

Her life-sword, Li Ke, was planted in the ground.

She had not even registered what had just happened.

How did her master arrive? And how did that guy she nearly cut down end up over there?

"Take your senior and junior sisters, and leave this place." Bie Xuening gave no explanation.

Junior sister?

Before Chi Jiuyu could react, her vision blurred.

When her sight cleared again, she found herself inside the starship's recovery chamber.

Besides the recovery chamber previously activated to heal her senior sister, another chamber had also activated; inside its pale green medicinal fluid lay a charred, unrecognizable figure.

The half of her body that had been obliterated had regenerated, though she still looked horrific…

But it was far better than before.

"Dead Fish! How did you come back?! What just happened?!" Li Ke asked urgently.

The "Virtual Projection Observation System" had suddenly shut down, as if disturbed by something.

"I don't know!" Chi Jiuyu herself was bewildered, "My master suddenly appeared and tossed me back here."

Auntie came?

No, it must have been only a sliver of power projection.

At that moment, the voice of the ship AI, Xiao Xue, sounded.

"Warning! Affected by unknown power, the starship has departed from its original star region!"

"Warning! The current star region of the starship is unknown!"

"Collecting spatial data!"

"Sending a dialogue request to the Star Region Garrison Commander of this star region!"

"Attempting to reconnect to the Xiang Jianzong battle network!"

Huh? The string of alert tones left Chi Jiuyu even more bewildered.

No way!

Where on earth did Master send him?!

How could it be so desolate that even the Xiang Jianzong battle network needs to be reconnected?

Just then, the streamlined hatch of the recovery chamber suddenly opened.

Whoosh!

Li Ke stepped out in one stride, her white special-issue bodysuit still stained with some medicinal liquid, outlining her graceful curves, her long hair draped wetly.

"Aren't you supposed to be recovering? Why did you come out!"

"It's no use," Li Ke explained, pressing her abdomen.

With the suppression gone, her realm had already recovered.

Moreover… in that instant just now, the power lingering in the wound had been ground away quite a bit.

'Is this Senior Uncle's handiwork…'

Her thoughts turning, her gaze seemed to pierce through the starship's thick armor, seeing many unfamiliar star systems around them.

But without exception, the planets in all those star systems were utterly desolate, without the slightest trace of life.

Is this a Spiritless Star Cluster? Yet it didn't seem so—beneath the seemingly barren surfaces of those planets, there was another world entirely.

Inside a spacious, spotless laboratory, rows of silver-gray, airtight, coffin-like "iron boxes" were neatly arranged.

Fine, pale-blue glowing circuits were embedded in their surfaces, snaking along like blood vessels.

Inside those "iron boxes" were filled with pale pink, slightly murky nutrient fluid.

Floating within were clone bodies, one after another, wearing special uniforms, of varying races, with soft tubes inserted all over their bodies.

And cultivation chambers like these, densely packed—on just one single planet's underground, numbered in the hundreds of millions! This place was unmistakably an old demon's fabricated divine soul cultivation base! Li Ke withdrew her gaze, pondering.

A fabricated divine soul cultivation base…

As for this, she didn't find it all that strange.

But it seemed the matter they had run into this time was indeed no small thing, so much so that even Senior Uncle had to conserve his strength.

Otherwise, with Senior Uncle's ability, even if it was just a sliver of a power projection, sending the few of them back to the Central Continent wouldn't have been difficult at all.

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